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Narrative Character Identification

Narrative Character Identification is a narrative communication construct that denotes the cognitive and affective process through which an audience member perceives, connects with, and adopts the perspective of a character within a narrative, distinguishing it from related constructs by its focus on the alignment of identity and subjective experience between audience and character.

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2017–2026

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Identification as a Mechanism of Narrative Persuasion

Anneke de Graaf, Hans Hoeken, José Sanders et al. · Communication Research · 2011 · 475 citations

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Identification with characters and narrative persuasion through fictional feature films

Communications · 2010 · 257 citations

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Development of story liking: Character identification, suspense, and outcome resolution.

Paul E. Jose, William F. Brewer · Developmental Psychology · 1984 · 214 citations · Full text

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Story Perspective and Character Similarity as Drivers of Identification and Narrative Persuasion

Hans Hoeken, Matthijs Kolthoff, José Sanders · Human Communication Research · 2016 · 174 citations · Full text

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Do ads that tell a story always perform better? The role of character identification and character type in storytelling ads

Laurence Dessart · International Journal of Research in Marketing · 2018 · 148 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JS
    José Sanders

    Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

    3 publications · 783 citations

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  2. PE
    Paul E. Jose

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    3 publications · 261 citations

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  3. JC
    Jonathan Cohen

    University of Haifa, Israel

    3 publications · 297 citations

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  4. HH
    Hans Hoeken

    Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

    3 publications · 783 citations

    3

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  5. JV
    Josep Valls-Vargas

    Drexel University, United States

    2 publications · 29 citations

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Institutions

51

  1. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    642 citations

  2. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, Spain

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    283 citations

  4. Drexel University

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    87 citations

  5. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    137 citations

  6. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    180 citations

  7. Macquarie University

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    232 citations

  8. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    89 citations

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  1. Developmental Psychology

    2 publications · 235 citations

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  2. Human Communication Research

    2 publications · 229 citations

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  3. Communications

    2 publications · 291 citations

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  4. Media Psychology

    MP · 2 publications · 152 citations

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  5. International Journal of Research in Marketing

    IJRM · 1 publications · 148 citations

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